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Hey,
I wanted to installed the ubuntu desktop. But how do I know that gui has started running on the server.
I do a “startx” in the terminal via ssh (though that makes little sense), but then the console screen stops at a certain point, no further activity.
I do a “echo $DISPLAY” in the terminal via ssh, it shows blank output as expected. How do I do that because I have an app, that needs to run and creating a window is necessary (it is a video rendering application). But the only problem it faces as seen via error log is that it cannot find and X server to connect to.

Well… I did the install for Minimal Ubuntu Desktop and lets just say it’s friggin’ minimal. Not even a terminal. I couldn’t do squat. Had to start up in recovery mode and remove desktop just to be able to do stuff?

I need to install GUI on server so i typed sudo apt-get ubuntu-desktop, but its showing excepion like broken package , now my question is hoow to download and place he pakage in he unix file system as i am runing this serer on virtual machine.